Speaker 1: All right, Thank you Scott Shannon, and thanks to all
Speaker 1: of you for being with us. Right down our toll
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Speaker 1: one Sean if you'd like to join us. And we
Speaker 1: are in the Washington Swamp once again. We are in DC.
Speaker 1: We're in the sewer. We're going to be here for
Speaker 1: two days. We will have an exclusive interview tonight with JD.
Speaker 1: Vance on his first tan knowledge of everything that went
Speaker 1: down with Zolenski on Friday. The President's been talking about
Speaker 1: it today as well, and President's strategy. The fact that
Speaker 1: the media doesn't understand him or want to understand him
Speaker 1: is very predictable, but it is unforgivable at this point
Speaker 1: in my view, because they don't want to understand him.
Speaker 1: They don't understand what's going on in Ukraine, they don't
Speaker 1: understand what's going on in Israel, they don't understand the
Speaker 1: Middle East, and their level of ignorance is it's flabbergasting
Speaker 1: on many, many levels, too many to even get into it,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, and it's it's kind of
Speaker 1: a sad thing that happened, but let me give you
Speaker 1: where I think this is going to go, so maybe
Speaker 1: to give you some hope, and I think it's going
Speaker 1: to end this way. I think so Lindsey's coming back,
Speaker 1: maybe sooner, maybe later. He actually made the ridiculous statement
Speaker 1: today that he thinks that this war is going to
Speaker 1: go on for years. Well if he believes that, then
Speaker 1: he has to believe that the funding for this war
Speaker 1: is going to continue. And at the United States. Maybe
Speaker 1: nobody told him, but there's a new sheriff in town,
Speaker 1: and this sheriff wants an end to the destruction and
Speaker 1: the death that has taken over Europe and his country.
Speaker 1: And if it does go on for years, there's not
Speaker 1: going to be a country that is worthy to be saved.
Speaker 1: And I'm watching all these European leaders now following the
Speaker 1: footsteps of Joe Biden. Joe Biden, JD. Vans was right.
Speaker 1: He pounded his chest and calling Putin names, and how
Speaker 1: did that stop Vladimir Putin? It didn't do a thing.
Speaker 1: And the best solution at this point, because Americans are
Speaker 1: not going to spend hundreds of millions more dollars in
Speaker 1: the next year with nearly forty trillion dollars in debt
Speaker 1: to fund the war that Zelenski wants to fight with
Speaker 1: our money, because that's where we are with this, and
Speaker 1: the best case scenario for him, and this was this
Speaker 1: was a three part deal. Part one should have been
Speaker 1: on Friday, and we have a lot of behind the
Speaker 1: scenes details that we'll give you in the course of
Speaker 1: this hour. Part one was to sign the rarer mineral
Speaker 1: deals that would have benefited Ukraine for two reasons. One,
Speaker 1: it would have ensured a business relationship and a US
Speaker 1: presence in Ukraine likely for decades to come. And two,
Speaker 1: American technology would have been used to extract the minerals,
Speaker 1: which would give them, you know, billions and billions of
Speaker 1: dollars to build back their country, which would have been
Speaker 1: a huge financial benefit for everybody involved. The President already
Speaker 1: said that he was open to the idea of European
Speaker 1: troops when he would talked to Emmanuel McCrone. He said
Speaker 1: to Macron that he's fine if European troops want to
Speaker 1: be on the ground, He's okay with that. And I'm watching,
Speaker 1: you know, Europe and their emergency meeting and the UK
Speaker 1: Prime Minister laying out a peace deal framework and welcoming
Speaker 1: Zelenski with open You're always welcome here. I'm like, fine,
Speaker 1: if Europe wants to if they want to continue to
Speaker 1: fund this war against Russia and not come to a
Speaker 1: negotiated settlement, that would have been phase three. Phase one
Speaker 1: is the mineral deal. Phase two is a ceasefire. Phase
Speaker 1: three is a negotiated settlement. That negotiated settlement, as I
Speaker 1: said to my interview with Zelensky a number of weeks
Speaker 1: back would include the rare Earth mineral deal to pay
Speaker 1: back the United States and also ensure an American presence
Speaker 1: there that would help them in terms of their country security.
Speaker 1: That and number two, a ceasefire that would be very
Speaker 1: good for them right now because they don't have the manpower,
Speaker 1: and they don't have the weaponry, and they don't even
Speaker 1: have the prospects of drafting any people because they're now
Speaker 1: you know, they they're now forcing forty five year old
Speaker 1: men into the battlefield, and I doubt most forty five
Speaker 1: year old men can fight like twenty and twenty five
Speaker 1: year old guys and at that age an unexpected war.
Speaker 1: So Europe can you know, criticize the US and act
Speaker 1: like they're the biggest Ukraine supporters of all time, and
Speaker 1: meanwhile it was the US that paid the bulk of
Speaker 1: the freight. The way Joe Biden set this up and
Speaker 1: Harris set this up, is this war starts, he's putin's
Speaker 1: of massing troops on the border. Biden's asked, well, you
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen if he invades. Most people
Speaker 1: were predicting he's not going to evade him, like that
Speaker 1: was the dumbest analysis at the time I'd ever heard.
Speaker 1: Of course, he was planning on invade, on invading. Did
Speaker 1: you not remember the annexation of Crimean what twenty thirteen
Speaker 1: or fourteen, whatever year that occurred. You got to be
Speaker 1: pretty dumb, naive and stupid not to think that he
Speaker 1: was gonna invade after amassing all these troops along the
Speaker 1: Ukrainian border. Well, it depends if it's a minor incursion.
Speaker 1: A minor incursion. What is a minor incursion? That means, well,
Speaker 1: we'll let him go in a little bit and we
Speaker 1: will be okay with that if it's a minor incursion,
Speaker 1: and then you know, then he starts with the handcuffs
Speaker 1: on Zolenski. At the beginning of the conflict, no, Poland
Speaker 1: can't give twenty eight megs. No, you can't use cluster bombs.
Speaker 1: And by the time Biden's leaving office, he's giving Zolensky
Speaker 1: ballistic missiles that can reach Russia, and he's firing those
Speaker 1: ballistic missiles into Russia, which did raise the possibility or
Speaker 1: greater possibility of the potential of a World War III situation,
Speaker 1: because Vladimir Putin responded by changing their nuclear policy to
Speaker 1: say that any country that fires ballistic missiles into their
Speaker 1: country is now they're now able to nuke them in response.
Speaker 1: Great job, Joe, on top of the hundreds of billions
Speaker 1: of dollars that you spent. Lindsey Graham, I love Lindsey
Speaker 1: Graham was absolutely apoplectic, and he's been a big supporter
Speaker 1: of Zelensky, but he also sees an opportunity here for peace.
Speaker 1: And then he tore into European leaders rallying behind Zelensky.
Speaker 1: Be my guest, Europe, you want to defend Ukraine from Putin,
Speaker 1: you go right ahead, he said, He said, less than
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, and which is the right position to
Speaker 1: be in? Now? All this said, I still think that
Speaker 1: Zelensky will be back, and I think it's going to
Speaker 1: be sooner than later, because at some point reality is
Speaker 1: going to kick in. It clearly didn't kick in by
Speaker 1: the time he went on Brett Bear Show on Friday night.
Speaker 1: We have Brettbahar on Friday night. It didn't kick in
Speaker 1: any point over the weekend. Although I do have sources,
Speaker 1: I have very good sources, better sources than the state
Speaker 1: run legacy medium on which is dead. Zelensky has been
Speaker 1: reaching out repeatedly to President Trump directly and his team directly,
Speaker 1: asking to come back and make this right. So hence
Speaker 1: my knowledgeable prediction, putting two and two together A squared
Speaker 1: B square equals C squared. I believe that Zelensky will
Speaker 1: be back now this afternoon. The President's holding a meeting
Speaker 1: on the next steps regarding the crisis with Ukraine, including
Speaker 1: the possible suspension of US military aid, according to US
Speaker 1: official with knowledge of the meeting. According to Axios, and
Speaker 1: suspending military aid would damage Ukraine's ability to defend itself
Speaker 1: against Russia's invasion, and I think it would also had
Speaker 1: the would have the added impact of bringing Zelensky back
Speaker 1: to the table. But he's got to come back with
Speaker 1: realistic expectations here if he wants this war, as he
Speaker 1: said today, this war is going to continue for years.
Speaker 1: If it continues for years, you don't have to have
Speaker 1: a HAVED or MIT degree to figure out there's not
Speaker 1: going to be a country left. It is going to
Speaker 1: be annihilated. It is going to be destroyed. There's going
Speaker 1: to be more refugees, There's going to be death and destruction.
Speaker 1: You know, I noticed JD Van so I'll have on
Speaker 1: Hannity tonight was forced to move his family to an
Speaker 1: undisclosed location because he had hundreds of pro Ukraine protesters
Speaker 1: swarming of vermon skivers. He's got young family and he
Speaker 1: wanted to take him for a weekend skiing. Guy can't
Speaker 1: even go skiing. It's ridiculous. And anyway, so one little
Speaker 1: factoid that we learn. Michael Goodwin, writing for The New
Speaker 1: York Post, delivered a pretty bomb show report yesterday that
Speaker 1: President Zolensky, before he met with the President on Friday,
Speaker 1: he met with a group of congressional Democrats. He also
Speaker 1: met with ten US senators and it's his belief that
Speaker 1: these Democrats sabotage these peace negotiations. And before meeting with
Speaker 1: the Zolensky before meeting with Trump. Rather, Zolensky met with
Speaker 1: these anti Trump Democrats who advised him to reject the
Speaker 1: terms of the mineral deal that the president was offering.
Speaker 1: According to Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, just finished the
Speaker 1: meeting with President Zelensky, he confirmed that the Ukrainian people
Speaker 1: will not support a fake peace agreement where Putin gets
Speaker 1: everything he wants and there is no security arrangements for Ukraine.
Speaker 1: That was phase three, the negotiated settlement. Phase one was
Speaker 1: the mineral deal that was supposed to happen. That was
Speaker 1: supposed to be a predetermined outcome. It's the third time
Speaker 1: Zelensky said he'd do it, and the third time he
Speaker 1: backed away from it. Case you're counting now. Forty minutes
Speaker 1: later after this meeting and Zolensky arrives at the White House,
Speaker 1: he President Trump goes out to meet him, and we
Speaker 1: all know what happened thereafter. The earlier meeting with Democrats
Speaker 1: undercuts wild claims that Trump and President van stage in Ambush.
Speaker 1: I know for a fact that wasn't. This was a
Speaker 1: predetermined outcome meeting, which happens all the time on the
Speaker 1: international stage, was supposed to be predetermined they were gonna
Speaker 1: shake hands and they were gonna, you know, smile, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna go sign the rare earth mineral deal. The
Speaker 1: next push was going to be for ceasefire, and Zolensky
Speaker 1: was supposed to say he would support a ceasefire so
Speaker 1: they can have a negotiated settlement. That didn't happen. That
Speaker 1: was a missed opportunity. Scott Bessent revealed Zolensky turned down
Speaker 1: two earlier opportunities to sign this rare earth mineral deal
Speaker 1: with the US, and he was given a chance in
Speaker 1: Kiev by him once in Munich and Secretary of State
Speaker 1: Mark or Rubio. And anyway, Thescent went all the way
Speaker 1: to Kiev because he thought it was important the president
Speaker 1: send him back there, you know, because of the shared
Speaker 1: economic interest. And they had a private meeting, you know,
Speaker 1: and at one point they wouldn't even they wouldn't even
Speaker 1: wake the guy up for a meeting. And he sat there,
Speaker 1: sat there, sat there, and then finally sent him out
Speaker 1: of here. And why should he say, but he was
Speaker 1: supposed to sign it. That was the predetermined outcome or
Speaker 1: what there was supposed to be. At the end of
Speaker 1: the meeting, he said I'm not signing this. I said
Speaker 1: at the end of the meeting, do you want to
Speaker 1: go out and tell the press? He said, uh, because
Speaker 1: I don't want to go out and show the Russians
Speaker 1: that there's daylight between us. And he said, well, I'm
Speaker 1: going to go out and say I'll sign it in Munich.
Speaker 1: That didn't happen anyway. So and by the way, if
Speaker 1: you want to know where the Ukrainian people are, we've
Speaker 1: got a poll number, you know, out from November. Callup
Speaker 1: polled the people of Ukraine on whether they want to
Speaker 1: keep fighting Russia versus ending the war now with the
Speaker 1: negotiated settlement by a fourteen point whopping majority. The people
Speaker 1: of Ukraine want the war to end through negotiations. And
Speaker 1: as far as the American people, Gallup had a plurality
Speaker 1: of Americans that support a quick end to this Ukrainian war,
Speaker 1: even if it means Russia gets to keep some of
Speaker 1: the territory they now occupy, which probably would have been
Speaker 1: part And I brought this up in my interview with him.
Speaker 1: You know, you're not going to be a member of NATO.
Speaker 1: But the President was open to European troops being on
Speaker 1: Ukrainian soil and the business relationship with the US would
Speaker 1: be a pretty powerful message. So we're going to find
Speaker 1: out what happens, Tulsea gabbered. The new DNI director you know,
Speaker 1: pointed out Zelenski has canceled elections, taken over the media,
Speaker 1: imprisoned opponents, and shut down churches. This guy not exactly,
Speaker 1: you know, mister Pope innocent here by the way, I
Speaker 1: know the Pope is on a ventilator and our prayers
Speaker 1: are with him and anybody that's sick for that matter.
Speaker 1: Not fun the White House now, Democrats, he's become He's
Speaker 1: an arm of the Kremlin. He's a putent puppet. This
Speaker 1: is the most ridiculous thing ever. Why don't you call
Speaker 1: him evil and Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin? Because, as
Speaker 1: the President explained on Friday, okay, I'll follow the idiotic,
Speaker 1: dopey media's pressure and give in and call Putin names.
Speaker 1: That's what Joe Biden did for years. How did that
Speaker 1: work out? And then he ended up funding a proxy
Speaker 1: war with the US that has cost US hundreds of
Speaker 1: billions of dollars. You know, Donald Trump's trying to make
Speaker 1: peace here to save Ukraine from total destruction and to
Speaker 1: end the death. And maybe maybe Speaker Johnson's right, maybe
Speaker 1: Zelensky's not up to that job. I don't know. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll find out soon enough. Well, no, well know, this
Speaker 1: is a sad story. I mean, I guess now the
Speaker 1: president until and the President's going to address the name
Speaker 1: should amid the Ukraine uncertainty. And he really was very
Speaker 1: he was very short on Friday when he said that
Speaker 1: he can come back when he wants peace. I don't
Speaker 1: think that message is going to change. And of course
Speaker 1: we'll hear a lot more at the State of the
Speaker 1: Union addressed tomorrow. We are in DC. We do have
Speaker 1: jd Vance, the Vice President. We'll get a first hand
Speaker 1: a count from him where he thinks this is all going.
Speaker 1: Why why he thinks this devolved into what it evolved into?
Speaker 1: Why did Zelensky act this way? And again, this to
Speaker 1: me was supposed to be largely ceremonial. It was not.
Speaker 1: By the way, here's a sad state of affairs. New
Speaker 1: York Post Gallup poll. Thirty three percent of Democrats survey
Speaker 1: said they had a favorable view of Israel. Sixty percent
Speaker 1: said they viewed Israel unfavorably. The first time. Ever, a
Speaker 1: Gallup survey showed up majority of members of a main
Speaker 1: US political party having a negative opinion of the Jewish State.
Speaker 1: I say to anybody, any of the respondents here, what
Speaker 1: part of murder, rape, kidnapping, torture, beheading did you not
Speaker 1: understand what happened on our coverer of the seventh The
Speaker 1: equivalent of forty thousand Americans died in a day. What
Speaker 1: are you missing here? All right? Quick break from the swamp.
Speaker 1: Jdvans tonight on Hannity. We'll continue when fake news gives
Speaker 1: you lies, Hannity supplies the truth. Sean Hannity is on
Speaker 1: right now, all right, twenty five now till the top
Speaker 1: of the hour. Eight hundred ninety four one shown is
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Speaker 1: We're going to have Vice President JD. Van's on tonight
Speaker 1: to talk about his first hand experience on Friday in
Speaker 1: the Oval Office with President Trump and Zelensky in the
Speaker 1: showdown that took place, and also my prediction. We'll get
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Speaker 2: Who do you think is right in the speech? Who
Speaker 2: do you think the speech writers are?
Speaker 1: I'm sure Trump does it himself. I bet you ad
Speaker 1: libs half of it.
Speaker 2: What do you think that he'll hit tomorrow night? What
Speaker 2: do you think?
Speaker 1: I think everything Like. I think he's gonna hit everything
Speaker 1: that he's said on the campaign trail. That is my prediction.
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Speaker 1: exactly what it is that he's doing. And I think
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Speaker 1: gonna be highly viewed tomorrow night. Its gonna be a
Speaker 1: big deal, and Democrats will do their usual sulk. I mean,
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Speaker 1: their plans. Rank and file Democrats are shrugging off HACKEM.
Speaker 1: Jeffries and Chucky Schumer's directive to use the president's address
Speaker 1: to showcase democratic resistance. Resistance to what Waltz. Voters don't see.
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Speaker 1: guy on earth. Jeffries and Schumer want members to attend
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Speaker 1: leaning against attending because when Trump does it it's not
Speaker 1: a serious event. Okay. Other lawmakers said they will take
Speaker 1: their spouses as is common. And you know, nearly a
Speaker 1: dozen House and Senate Democrats said they are leaning against attending.
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Speaker 1: lined up in the aisle seats for the twelve hours
Speaker 1: prior to the State of the Union that want to
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Speaker 1: I forgot it was Politico today, That's where it was.
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Speaker 1: On the other side of that, I would be forced
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Speaker 2: Literally, is this a Smith Hannity ticket? Are you guys
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Speaker 3: Is that what's happening? Because if it is I want.
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Speaker 2: You said you don't want to be president. I want
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Speaker 2: I think allow people want you to be president.
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Speaker 1: the left wing of their party. Democrats quote, have become
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Speaker 1: Does wear shorts, And my attitude is you can wear
Speaker 1: whatever the heck he wants. It's crazy. They gathered in
Speaker 1: Loudin County and Virginia day and a half of retreat.
Speaker 1: They plotted their parties come back. They searched for why
Speaker 1: the party lost in November and what to do about it.
Speaker 1: One of the key ways to win back the trust
Speaker 1: of the working class is where it gets interesting, is,
Speaker 1: they argued, was to reduce the far left influence and
Speaker 1: infrastructure on the party. Now here's where steven A would miscalculate.
Speaker 1: Steven A would try to run as a more moderate Democrat.
Speaker 1: Your Governor Josh Shapiro's probably looking at the Oval office,
Speaker 1: maybe an attempted run from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: Could you not curse at me? It is three thirty.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, thank you. And the problem is for the
Speaker 1: party is he probably can't get the nomination. Neither can
Speaker 1: Steven A. If you don't sound like AOC, the odds
Speaker 1: of you getting the nomination are going to be very low.
Speaker 2: What if he ran as an independent, Well, because.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that, honest, I'm actually fine because that'll
Speaker 1: put the ticket with the ticket.
Speaker 2: It'll be great.
Speaker 1: They had five pages of takeaways Politico obtained from one
Speaker 1: of the participants, and not all attendees endorsed each point,
Speaker 1: by the way, just in case you're interested, and anyway,
Speaker 1: in the wake of the election loss, it became evident
Speaker 1: that things that the left were doing and saying hurt
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, it says, and down ballot democrats, I say wrong. Well,
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris stood for and said was as radical as
Speaker 1: every modern Democrat you know. Taxpayer funded sex change operations
Speaker 1: of running mate, taxpayer funded college tuition for illegals, gender
Speaker 1: affirming care for minors without parental consent, as if parents
Speaker 1: don't have any rights at all, anymore anyway. So and
Speaker 1: they go on to say one of their comprehensive and sweeping,
Speaker 1: you know, election loss they centered on the party's disconnect
Speaker 1: with the working class, weak messaging and communication, no failed policies.
Speaker 1: They're wrong again on point two and their failure to
Speaker 1: prioritize economic concerns. Well, they lied to us as a
Speaker 1: party with abandonment about the borders, about economy, about Joe's
Speaker 1: cognitive state, why would we trust them now? And over
Speaker 1: emphasis on identity politics that defines this party. They're not
Speaker 1: going to eliminate that. And the attachment to unpopular institutions
Speaker 1: like academia, media, government, bureaucracy, Well they have a chance. Now,
Speaker 1: what democrat is not screaming constitutional crisis because we're finding
Speaker 1: hundreds of billions of dollars of waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption.
Speaker 1: You know, if Trump's first term might have energized progressives,
Speaker 1: it looks like the early signs the second term is
Speaker 1: going to do the same. In spite of what Politico
Speaker 1: is saying about this small group of Democrats. Now they say, well,
Speaker 1: with the selection of Senator Slogan of Michigan to deliver
Speaker 1: the response to the nation after Donald Trump, Okay, those
Speaker 1: gathered laid out twenty solutions, embraced patriotism, community, traditional American imagery.
Speaker 1: They're acknowledging that they don't so what They're going to
Speaker 1: fake it because it's not real. If it was, patriotism
Speaker 1: comes out. It is raw, it is natural, it is
Speaker 1: is unapologetic. You don't need a note from a group
Speaker 1: of moderates in your party. Let us embrace patriotism and
Speaker 1: community and traditional imagery that is Americana. I'm like, how
Speaker 1: stupid are these So let's fake it. Let's act like
Speaker 1: people would not. Candidates should get out of elite circles
Speaker 1: and into real communities and go to tailgates and gun
Speaker 1: shows and local restaurants and churches. Well, they haven't exactly
Speaker 1: been the biggest supporters of the Second Amendment, and they
Speaker 1: haven't been the biggest supporters of freedom of religion. And
Speaker 1: we know the party's position against Israel, and if they
Speaker 1: go to a church, it's basically solds to the polls,
Speaker 1: which has been always a big part of the democratic
Speaker 1: strategy during presidential election years. They need to own the
Speaker 1: failures of the democratic governance in large cities and commit
Speaker 1: to improving. Oh decades and decades of failure. That part
Speaker 1: I agree with. Are they going to admit that their
Speaker 1: policies on law and order and safety and security and
Speaker 1: borders and energy are out of touch with where the
Speaker 1: country is and that lying to the American people and
Speaker 1: having their allies in the media do the lying for
Speaker 1: them failed spectacularly too. I don't think so this is
Speaker 1: all you know what? This is smoke and mirrors. How
Speaker 1: can we Basically, it should have been a document that says,
Speaker 1: how do we deceive the American people into believing that
Speaker 1: we're something that we really are not. That's what the
Speaker 1: article should have said.